Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Transportation tokens: an uncertain Penny-sized coin, planed flat and engraved When this you see remember me and bear me in your mind, let all the world say what they will don’t prove to me unkind, rev. Peter Hart Aged 22 1833, Transported for 7 Years, August 7th 1833 (SCMB October 1971, p.360, this piece); a George III Penny, 1797, planed flat and stipple-engraved The 73rd Ridgment the Saucey green, as pritty a Core as ever was seen, we beat them in the art of Drilling and allways, rev. game to Spend a Shilling, Wm. Fegen, Transported 7 Years Jany. 6 1842 [2]. Varied state; both worthy of further research £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Engraved Coins formed by the late Richard Law.

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Provenance: First P.T. Meldrum Collection, bt P. Dawson March 2002; second bt M. Crofts February 2011.

William Fegen was acquitted of larceny at Warwickshire Borough Sessions on 20 October 1841, but on a similar charge at the next Sessions on 6 January 1842 was convicted and transported